Polskie Drużyny Strzeleckie

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Polskie Drużyny Strzeleckie (Polish Rifleman Divisions) was a Polish pro-independence paramilitary organziation, founded by the Youth Independence Organization Zarzewie in Austro-Hungarian part of Polish partition in 1911.

The founders of PDS included Norwid Neugebauer, Marian Januszajtis-Żegota, Henryk Bagiński and Eugeniusz Homer. The organization was similar in spirit and closely cooperated with Związek Strzelecki. It was also supported by the Austro-Hungarian government which wanted to raise a Polish army for the First World War. By 1914 the organization counted 6000 members. Most of the members joined the Polish Legions in World War I of Józef Piłsudski.

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